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News Gazette August 15-17 2010

Includes clippings on: Champaign-Urbana Days Celebration, National Council of African-American Men's celebration featuring Ronald Burris, and Rookie Cooks program at Douglas Branch Library.
News-Gazette, August 13 and 14 2010

Includes clippings on the expansion of the Don Moyer Boys and Girls Program into a local church and the separation of its high school and younger youth programs; second article on the Champaign County Public Housing and its proposal to revamp and…

Started by Iva "Big Honey" Matthews in 1969. File includes information on her husband, Henry Matthews.
News-Gazette August 7 2010 clippings

Articles on Champaign Police Youth Development Program and Park Street Re-Development Project

Search "Dave Monk" for other type recollections and opinions.

Biography of future Miss America, Erika Harold, from Urbana. Featured in Cotillion

Research based on years of data collection and analysis in Champaign-Urbana. From chapter: "In this chapter, the facts and conditions in the optimistic scene we
have just painted change. Instead of a bright employment future and its
DRUG SELLING: A…

This research proposes a basic housing gap model that can assist in the decision making process
related housing construction and rehabilitation programs. This model is then applied to the
community. of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to examine how…

Auto-biography of Khair Ali (Freddie Davis/Fred Davis) documenting his migration to Champaign in the 1950s, discrimination, his boxing career, his conversion to the Nation of Islam, his musical career and the cultural life of African-Americans in…